Bill Simmons is the driving force behind a new website, Grantland, which aims to provide a mixture of sports and pop culture to readers in a intelligent and readable manner. It should succeed. But will it?

ESPN has unveiled the details of Bill Simmon’s new website, Grantland. It’ll be a classy, literate sports and pop culture destination, featuring contributions from Malcolm Gladwell, Chuck Klosterman and Dave Eggers among many others. The site launches in June.

Some of us have the mistaken belief that professional wrestling is more entertainment than sport, more theater than competition, more fake than real. When you see this clip from CZW’s Night of Infamy 9, you’ll know it’s quite real. Amazing.

The network sportscaster, and the iconic voices of yesteryear that live in so many middle-aged fans’ hearts and minds, is dead…or at least dated. CJ Aquilino breaks down why sportscasters suck so badly and what can be done about it.